Journals kept by Horace Binney, American lawyer and legal writer, on a trip to Europe, 1836-1837; commonplace book written by Binney for his daughter Susan, 1858; and the Autobiography of Horace Binney, 1780-1868, together with essays by Binney and some notes on the Binney family.

The correspondence, 1756-1888, bulks between 1793 and 1866. Subjects addressed include: banking, including the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States; churches and charities, particularly Christ Church in Philadelphia, for which both William and William M. Meredith were wardens and vestrymen; Federalist, Whig, and Republican politics at the local, state, and national levels; education; prison reform; and arts and letters. Principal correspondents include: Alexander Dallas Bache, James C. Biddle, Horace Binney, Samuel Breck, Mathew Carey, Henry C. Carey, Charles and Henry Gilpin, Robert Hare, Charles Jared Ingersoll, Reverend Johnson, Abbott Lawrence, David Parish, John Hare Powel, and Eli Kirk Price. Also present are: William Rawle, Richard Rush, John Sergeant, Robert Walsh, and Thurlow Weed.

There are also family accounts, bills, and receipts, 1778-1884; and drafts, pamphlets, statutes and legal papers. The subject categories are: banks, 1807-1866, including material relating to the legislative charters of several Pennsylvania banks; canals, 1822-1865, including the Delaware and Hudson and Union canals; charities, 1821-1873, including material on the Philadelphia Almshouse and the Greek Relief Fund; education, 1809-1859, concerning both the University of Pennsylvania and its Free School, of which William M. Meredith was president of the Board of Trustees; Meredith family lands in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, 1785-1860; miscellaneous leases and other legal papers, 1760's-1860's; railroads, 1834-1865, including material on the Northern Liberties and Penn Township Railroad, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and others; ships, 1763-1852, with maritime insurance policies, claims; verse, mostly written by William M. Meredith, 1814-1857; and the Port Folio, 1801-1807, concerning its publication and circulation.

Business records of Jonathan Meredith include: letter books, 1786-1811;personal memoranda, 1780-1794; blotters, 1784-1797; waste book, 1795; day books, 1786-1794; ledgers, 1772-1788; cash books, 1795-1804; receipt books, 1779-1799; real estate tax receipts, 1788-1801; bills payable, 1793-1803; accommodation notes, 1795; memorandum book of interest payable; list of expenses for repairing the estate opposite Samuel Powel, Esq., 1790-1792; and bank books for the Bank of North America, 1787-1799, the Bank of Pennsylvania, 1793-1818, and the Bank of the United States, 1791-1794.

Personal, professional, and business papers of Jonathan's son, William Meredith, include: letter books and letterpress books, 1802-1838; cash book, 1799-1803; receipt books, 1795-1838; rent books, 1827-1837; appearance dockets for the Supreme Court, 1797-1826, for the Court of Common Pleas, 1797-1818, for the Philadelphia District Court, 1811-1826, and for the Court of Quarter Sessions, 1814-1819; legal memoranda, 1797-1838; report of the City Solicitor on titles to city property, 1810-1839; accounts for the Committee for the Necessitous Poor, 1823-1824; and bank books for the Commercial Bank, 1813-1815, the Bank of Pennsylvania, 1811, and the Schuylkill Bank, 1814-1829.

Also present are: David Meredith, bank books with the Bank of Pennsylvania, 1808-1818, letter book, 1806-1816, and day book, 1787-1790; and some business and professional papers of William M. Meredith, including diaries, 1814-1825, legal and personal memoranda, 1818, notes on practice, n.d., appearance docket for Philadelphia District Court, 1819-1834, letter books, 1849-1850, while Secretary of the Treasury, and letter book, 1865. There are trial dockets for Philadelphia Aldermen's Court, 1830, Quarter Sessions, 1831-1832, and the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Philadelphia, 1829-1830. Each includes a jury list.

Miscellaneous accounts of Meredith legal clients as well as other members of the family include: Joseph Anthony, bank books, 1794-1799, ledger, 1760-1782, and receipt book, 1773-1787; John Du Barry, receipt book, 1806-1815; William Baker, receipts, 1812-1815; Baltimore Mail Coach, passenger and cargo book, 1823-1824; Hawthorne & Kerr, waste books, 1795-1801, journal, 1793-1795, ledger, 1793-1795, receipt book, 1795-1800, and invoice book, 1805-1807; James Hawthorne, waste book, 1793-1797; Thomas Hawthorne, invoice book, 1805-1807; Lain I. Johnson, merchant of Richmond, Va., record of collections in northern Virginia, 1789; Richard Littlewood, ledger, 1786-1793; J. Lupton, ledger, 1784-1797; Thomas Lupton, accounts for the estate of J. Lupton, 1799-1812; Hugh Maxwell, memorandum of book sales, 1806; Daniel McCarney and James Sterrit, whiskey dealers, sales book, 1818-1820; Daniel McKaraher, receipt book, 1804-1813; and record prepared by William M. Meredith for the Vestry of Christ Church, 1832, of bequests and gifts to the Church from Dr. John Kearsley and Joseph Dobbins.

Miscellaneous legal papers include materials on the estates of the Anthony, Bond, Carey, Morris, Ogden, Robinson, Stockton, Westcott, and Wurts families; business papers on lands in Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey, and New York; materials on maritime shipping and insurance; and wills, leases, briefs, abstracts, and other legal papers.

These papers include his commissions as deputy secretary, 1791-1833; a few personal papers and family letters; and a plan of the town of Shenango, 1808.

Correspondence dealing with the routine work of a congressman, and some letters on conditions in the southern states during Reconstruction are included.

Correspondence and bills, 1831-1902; miscellaneous legal papers, including many deeds of the Church; scrapbook and journal of the Rev. E.D. Saunders, with some records of his military school, 1852-1870, in West Philadelphia.

The responsibility for the Indian Rights Association's programs fell, largely, to five men, all of whom had lengthy careers with the Indian Rights Association: Herbert Welsh, Matthew Sniffen, and Lawrence E. Lindley, active in Philadelphia; and Charles C. Painter and Samuel M. Brosius, Washington agents.

The collection contains correspondence, 1864-1967, and letterpress books, 1886-1943; organizational records, 1882-1973; printed matter, including early Indian pamphlets, Indian Rights Association Annual Reports and draft legislation, 1830-1969; Herbert Welsh papers, 1877-1934; photographs, mainly from Western field trips, ca. 1910-1930; Council on Indian Affairs materials, 1943-1968; manuscripts dealing with traditional Pueblo Indian dances, 1912-1915, and the legal rights of Oklahoma Indians under that state's probate laws, 1912-1916.

Microfilm available from the Microfilming Corporation of America. 21 Harristown Road; Glen Rock, NJ 07452.

Financial accounts, correspondence, miscellaneous papers, and lectures on banking.

This account book lists the sums owed him by various lawyers for services rendered in his official capacity, some of which were paid after his death.

• Armstrong, William A. Receipt book, 1867-1875. William A. Armstrong was a Philadelphia stone contractor. (1 v.)
• Atkins & Hughes. Letterbook, 1865-1867. Atkins & Hughes were Philadelphia commission merchants. (1 v.)
• Baker, Pennell and Blanchard & Marsh. Account book, 1844-1858. (1 v.)
• Bertolet, Amos. Account book, 1839-1861. Bertolet was a Norristown liquor merchant. ( 1 v.)
• Black, Samuel A. Accounts, 1856-1920. Black was a Philadelphia building contractor. (2 v.)
• Bonsall, John. Daybook, 1815-1831. Bonsall was a Philadelphia real estate conveyancer. (1 v.)
• Booksellers daybook, 1869-1870. (1 v.)
• Thomas Borbridge & Company. Receipt book, 1822-1829. (1 v.)
• Burr, H. Daybook, 1835-1839. Burr operated a Vincentown, N.J. general store. (2 v.)
• Chevalier, John. Daybook, 1760-1766. John and Peter Chevalier were Philadelphia and China merchants of rugs, blankets, dry goods, and general merchandise. (1 v.)
• Clarkson, William. Ledger, 1767-1791. Clarkson was a Philadelphia general merchant.. (1 v.)
• Coates, Mary. Personal receipt book, 1760-1770. (1 v.)
• Columbia Transportation Line. Daybook of shipments, 1823-1824. (1 v.)
• Commercial Banker's Accounts, 1859-18861. (1 v.)
• Connelly, Lemuel S. Cashbook, 1851-1858. Connelly was a Philadelphia ship captain. (1 v.)
• Coxe, Daniel W. Records, 1815-1849. (5 v.)
• Cummings, Albert F. Account books, 1891-1931. (5 v.)
• Daix, Augustus F. Letterpress book, 1907-1909. (1 v.)
• Dobbins Soap Manufacturing Company (Camden, N.J.) Records, 1892-1936. (2 v.)
• Emlen, George - Estate. Personal account book, 1784-1811.
• Evans, William. Receipt book, 1836-1857. Evans was a Philadelphia publisher. (1 v.)
• Evans, William. Records, 1818-1868. Evans was a Philadelphia druggist. (3 v.)
• Everett, Hicks, & Caldwell. Receipt book, 1858-1861. Philadelphia merchants. (1 v.)
• Farmers and Mechanics Bank (Philadelphia, Pa.) Bankbook of deposits, 1841-1846. (1 v.)
• Fitzwater, John and Jacob. Records, 1813-1860. John and Jacob Fitzwater were Fitzwatertown lime-makers and general store operators. (1 v.)
• Footman, Richard T. Letterbook, 1791-1793. Footman was a Savannah, Ga., general merchant. (1 v.)
• Fraizer, F.W. Account book, 1842-1850. Fraizer was a Philadelphia real estate dealer. (1 v.)
• Frazier, Nalbro. Cashbook, 1805-1811. Frazier was a Philadelphia insurance agent. (1 v.)
• General merchant records, 1821-1885. (9 v.)
• Green, Henry. Records, 1859-1887. (1 v.)
• Haines, Joshua. Account book, 1796. Haines was a Philadelphia importer. (1 v.)
• Hill, John and Samuel. Records, 1835-1908. John and Samuel Hill were Philadelphia rental agents. ( 1 v.)
• Charles Hillman & Company. Records, 1853-1896. (2 v.)
• Holbrook and Hughes. Letterbook, 1863-1867. Holbrook and Hughes were commission merchants. (1 v.)
• Howell, Arthur. Account book, 1791-1799. Howell was a Philadelphia courier. (1 v.)
• Hudson, Arnold. Account book, 1765-1780.
• Robert Jenks and Son. Windsor Forge records, 1830-1839. (2 v.)
• Melchior and John Larer. Receipt book, 1815-1820. The Larers were Philadelphia brewers. (1 v.)
• Linvill, S.D. Receipt book, 1885-1886. Linvill was a Chester County farmer. (1 v.)
• Mason, Richard. Daybook, 1784-1788. (1 v.)
• McCalla, Alexander. Daybook, 1814. McCalla was a Philadelphia innkeeper. (1 v.)
• McCally, John. Account books, 1805-1825. McCally was a Philadelphia merchant. (1 v.)
• Abraham Mitchell and Company. Daybook, 1844-1858. Abraham Mitchell and Company were New York liquor merchants. (1 v.)
• Morris, Luke W. Receipt book, 1799. Morris was a Philadelphia brewer. Receipts for goods and services furnished the Orphan's Home. (1 v.)
• O'Neil, Henry. Account book, 1846-1848. (1 v.)
• Philadelphia National Bank (Philadelphia, Pa.) Signature book, 1856-1868. (1 v.)
• Pryor, Joseph. Journal, 1796-1805. Pryor was a Philadelphia grocer. (1 v.)
• Rex, S.S. Account book, 1834-1835. Accounts for the Scheafferstown general store. (1 v.)
• Richardson, Joseph. Records, 1796-1801. Richardson was a gold and silversmith. (3 v.)
• Root, R.M. Account books, 1880-1899. (1 v.)
• Scott, Lewis A. Account books, 1840-1847. Scott was a Philadelphia lawyer. (1 v.)
• Sharswood, William. Journal, 1811-1812. Sharswood was a Philadelphia brewer. (1 v.)
• Simpson, Thomas C. Personal cashbook, 1865-1867. (1 v.)
• Swift Sure Line Mail Stage. Account book, 1811-1814. (1 v.)
• Steel and Smith. Ledger, 1818-1823. Steel and Smith were Chester County millers. (1 v.)
• Stock, John. Receipt books, 1784-1841. Stock was a Philadelphia painter. (2 v.)
• Super, John. Account book, 1828-1831. Super was a Philadelphia blacksmith. (1 v.)
• Thompson, William P. Ledger, 1831-1835. (1 v.)
• Trumbauer, William T. Daybooks, 1857-1863. Trumbauer was a Schuylkill County merchant. (3 v.)
• Vaughan and Lyman. Records, 1853-1896. Vaughan and Lyman were Philadelphia shipbuilders. (1 v.)
• Vollmer, Gottlieb. Records, 1863-1869. Vollmer was a Philadelphia housefurnishing merchant. (1 v.)
• Wescoat, William. Ledger, 1827-1829. Wescoat was a general merchant. (2 v.)
• Western Transportation Line. Shipments between Philadelphia and Baltimore, Md., 1827-1838. (1 v.)
• Whitaker and Stickel. Journal 1863-1881. Whitaker and Stickel was Philadelphia publishers. (1 v.)
• Isaac S. Williams and Company. Receipt book, 1883-1890. Williams and Company were Philadelphia housefurnishing merchants. (1 v.)

The earliest papers, 1884-ca. 1900, pertain to his early life and his start in politics. Many clippings and letters reveal his activities as a reporter and editorial writer, 1884-1894. Some material on the Johnstown flood, 1889, is also included. For the period 1894-1906, there is considerable information on local politics.

The second group of papers, pertains to the period when Moore was a U.S. congressman, 1906-1920, is voluminous and reveals the activities of a hard-working and influential big city representative and disclose the pressures exerted by various economic, social, religious, cultural and national groups about proposed legislation. There is much on World War I, 1914-1918.

The third group pertains to Moore's career in local politics and includes: correspondence, reports, and clippings on his two terms as Mayor, 1920-1924, and 1932-1936; some correspondence and clippings, 1920-1949, on other political and local affairs.

The fourth section pertains to Moore's activities in social and political clubs. The Five O'Clock Club, a well-known dining club organized in 1883, is represented by correspondence, notes, and invitations, 1890-1930. Correspondence, 1900-1912, of the National League of Republican Clubs is also contained in this group.

The last major group of papers is that of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association. Moore was president of this group from its organization in 1907 to 1948. Correspondence, clippings, and pamphlets on the efforts to construct a deep-channel, protected waterway from Boston to Miami.

Correspondents include: W.J. Bryan, John J. Pershing, Al Smith, Charles Warren Fairbanks, Boies Penrose, Zane Grey, Grover Cleveland, W.G. Harding, Cyrus Curtis, Theodore Roosevelt, George Dewey, Mark Hanna, Elihu Root, A. Graham Bell, Calvin Coolidge, William McKinley, Joseph Grundy, Edward Bok, Georges Clemenceau, John Burroughs, Henry Ford, and others.

Jones's daughter, Sarah, married Robert Henderson, and then Theophilus Harris. Harris was a minister and justice of the peace for Philadelphia County, and some personal incoming correspondence, 1810-1845, court dockets, 1819-1833, daybook, 1822-1841, and miscellaneous legal items are found here. There is family correspondence, 1815-1861, of Samuel Jones Henderson, son of Sarah and Robert Henderson. Of special interest are Civil War letters between Laura Henderson Dade and her husband Frank Dade while he was serving as a Union Army physician stationed at Beaufort, S.C.

Minute books and letterbooks, 1780-1923. The minute books, are complete from the very beginning of the bank until its merger with the Commercial Trust Company, with brief records of meetings of the Board of Directors and some of meetings of stockholders.

The documents include formal bank communications, memoranda, announcements, copies of letters, financial statements, and the like. The most interesting of the documents is a long report from the Joint Committee of the Philadelphia banks, April 13, 1816, recommending that specie payments be resumed as soon as the Bank of the United States commenced giving discounts, that each bank pay out its own notes only (except those for less than $10), and that the banks refrain from an immediate reduction of discounts. There are photographs and engravings of bank people. There are also a few caricatures and silhouettes. In addition there are numerous prints and engravings of Robert Morris and the first seven presidents of the bank: Thomas Willing, John Nixon, John Morton, Henry Nixon, John Richardson, James Dixon, and Thomas Smith.

Miscellaneous items include: deeds of sundry lands contracted for in 1793 and 1794 by Robert Morris, John Nicholson, and James Greenleaf, totaling over 3.5 million acres in Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky, at an average price of over a shilling an acre; letter book of John Nixon, Philadelphia merchant; checkbooks and bank books; scrapbook, 1904-1920, of antiquarian interest; unclassified books and pamphlets on finance; and an extra-illustrated, three-volume folio edition of Lawrence Lewis' History of the Bank of North America.

McClurkin, A.J. "The Bank of North America and the Financial History of Philadelphia," P.M.H.B., 64 (1940).

The collection covers many aspects of the Exhibition. Most important in the collection is the Documentary Record of the Centennial. This is a group of scrapbooks that primarily focuses upon the United States Centennial Commission. The Commission was responsible for soliciting support through its Board of Finance, organizing the centennial celebration and exhibits, and building the extensive exhibition grounds.

There are reports, pamphlets, form letters, lists of regulations, and news releases. Information on the various Bureaus of Administration (Agriculture, Horticulture, Transportation, Machinery) and foreign and state exhibits is present.

Most correspondence consists of form letters to legislators, supporters, and exhibitors.

There are architectural plans submitted in the Centennial building competition with descriptions by the architects. Ephemera (trade cards, visitors' cards, invitations, programs, and newspaper clippings) fills out the collection.

There are many photographs and stereoscopic views of the exhibition grounds, buildings, and exhibits.

Major groups of regimental papers are: Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteers, 2nd Regiment, enlistment certificates for Company G, 1862, orders, 1862, and muster rolls, October 1864; New York Volunteers, 67th Regiment (Long Island Volunteers, 1st Regiment) Company K, muster rolls, 1862-1864, return notices, 1863-1864, and morning reports, July-November 1862; Pennsylvania Volunteers, 96th and 98th Regiments, scattered muster rolls; Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corp, 7th Regiment, Company G, record books, 1861-1864, of clothing, personnel descriptive list, orders, and morning reports; Matthew Hasting Independent Keystone Battery record books, 1862-1864, morning reports, post guard reports, and clothing.

Enlistment related papers consist of Marine Corps enlistment certificates at Philadelphia, November, 1862 to January, 1863; Citizens Bounty Fund Committee, Philadelphia, muster rolls of reserve units, September, 1862; Philadelphia Sixth Ward enlistment certificates, 1864-1865, and some financial papers; Camden City Middle Ward enrollment list, August, 1862. There are also Office for the Relief of the Families of Philadelphia Volunteers payment orders, 1861-1865.

Additionally there are copies of correspondence, 1861-1862, between Major General Robert Patterson and General Winfield Scott on military operations of the first Bull Run Campaign; William H. Manley, private with Pennsylvania Volunteers, 72nd Regiment (Baxter's Fire Zouaves), letters, 1861-1862; David D. Jones, officer with Pennsylvania Volunteers, 88th Regiment, letters, 1862-1863; and [John F.] Reynolds Monument Committee, minutes and papers, 1864-1878.

A small section of Confederate miscellany includes some letters, 1861-1862.

Minutes of the Advisory Committee; correspondence file of George Wharton Pepper; publicity information on Pepper's efforts; treasurer's reports, 1917-1918.

The papers include: subscriptions to the fund, 1862-1863; correspondence, 1862-1863, on enlistments and donations of tents and other equipment; certificates of volunteer enlistments; financial records, 1862-1866; and minutes, 1862-1863.

Cover title: Personal War Sketches Presented to Courtland Saunders Post No. 21 Department of Pennsylvania / by Frank F. Bell et al.

Typescript.

The first part contains business letters and records, 1700-1748, of Samuel Powel, the original settler, and of his son Samuel. They were general merchants trading with Europe and the West Indies. The next Samuel Powel was mayor of Philadelphia in 1775 and again in 1789. He married Elizabeth Willing who became well known as a social leader. Present are Samuel Powel's exercises at the University of Pennsylvania, 1759; his business papers, 1767-1771; and a list of his property, 1779. The papers of Elizabeth Powel comprise a group of pocket almanacs, 1793-1822, with diary entries; receipt books, 1793-1801; personal account books, 1794-1800; and correspondence, 1772-1823, including copies of her own letters. Among the correspondents are George Washington, Bishop William White, William Bingham, Rev. Jacob Duché, and others of equal prominence.

The remainder of the Powel papers are those of Elizabeth's nephew and adopted son, and his descendants. John Hare Powel, who changed his name from John Powel Hare in 1807, was active in public affairs and was much interested in improving breeds of cattle in America. His correspondence, 1806-1839, contains much on these matters as well as on early railroads, the location of tracks in the city of Philadelphia, and on canals. A group of papers, 1830-1850, on coal lands in Pennsylvania describes their possibilities. Personal papers include: a diary, 1806, of a trip to Calcutta; letter books, 1827-1830 and 1849-1853; a commonplace book; and an abridgement of Robertson's History of Charles V complete his personal papers. His business papers showing the activities of a well-to-do landowner cover the years 1820-1856.

Samuel Powel, son of John Hare Powel, lived in Philadelphia and Newport. His papers largely supplement those of his father and deal with similar subjects. They include business papers and accounts, 1843-1885, with many bills and receipts, 1856-1857, on the construction of the Newport house; a diary kept while in Europe, 1841, and personal correspondence, 1843-1884, containing many letters to members of his family and a number, 1843-1869, from Dorothea Dix.

Among the remaining Powel papers are those of Mary Edith Powel, including her garden notebooks, 1894-1919; journal, 1898-1907, 1923-1926; correspondence, almost entirely personal, 1883-1925; genealogical notes; and several scrapbooks and notebooks.

Samuel Powel married Mary Johnston who was born in Jamaica, B.W.I. Through her came a large group of papers of the Johnston, Taylor, and Cole families of Jamaica. They deal largely with the operation of plantations on that island. Dr. Alexander Johnston, a physician, is represented by daybooks, 1782-1783; ledgers, 1764-1769, 1773-1775; journal, 1760-1772; diaries, 1773-1775 and 1787; and commonplace book, 1764, containing medical discourses delivered at Aberdeen, Scotland. Of James Johnston there is correspondence, 1807-1836; accounts, 1821-1830; and a few military papers, 1793-1833, showing the life of a Jamaica planter.

The bulk of the Johnston papers are those of Robert Johnston, who spent most of his life in England, moving to Newport, R.I., about 1832-1834. The Robert Johnston papers include the original journals of his travels in northern Europe and Russia, 1814, in Scotland, 1810 and 1813, and in Ireland, 1812. Also included are journals of a voyage from London to Jamaica, 1813, and one of his residence at Newport, 1835-1839; correspondence, 1802-1839, dealing with business, literary, and personal affairs; and business papers, 1817-1836, concerning his Jamaica plantation and a projected railroad from London to Southampton, a plan he originated.

Business papers, 1783-1813, of John Taylor and of Jacob Thomas Cole, Jamaica planters, are also in this collection.

The estate was invested primarily in undeveloped lands in Pennsylvania, New York, and Maine.

The papers on the Maine lands include most of the important papers connected with the Knox-Duer purchase of Maine lands in 1791; descriptions of the country, surveyors' field books, and similar accounts of Maine in the 1790's; papers on the attempt to plant a French colony in Maine under Madame Leval; documents on the transfer of this purchase to William Bingham in 1792-1793; a series of letters, 1793-1795, from William Jackson while he was in Europe attempting to sell Maine lands to British capitalists and the French government; correspondence with Generals Henry Knox, Henry Jackson, and David Cobb, all concerned in one way or another in the development of the purchase; material on the sale of one half of the Penobscot Tract in 1796 to Alexander Baring, acting for the house of Baring and Hope; letters from Harrison Gray Otis, Thomas Russell, John and Stephen Codman, John Richards, and other prominent Massachusetts citizens, 1791-1830; papers explanatory of the suit of Cabot et al v. Bingham, arising from Bingham's actions while agent for the Continental Congress in Martinique, 1779-1804; reports on Maine developments from General David Cobb, John Black, and other agents, 1795-1850; reports of the trustees of the Bingham estate on the Maine property, together with their correspondence with various agents, 1804-1850; and numerous accounts, vouchers, deeds, contracts and court papers illuminating almost every phase of this venture.

The papers on the Pennsylvania and New York lands are similar in content. They contain many letters and reports from the agent at Wellsboro, 1855-1917, to the trustees of the estate. A few letters, 1879-1911 mention oil leases.

The letters of various members of the Drayton family reflect their opinions on nullification, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and other subjects. Of special interest are the letters of General Thomas Drayton, U.S. Army, and the correspondence of Captain Percival Drayton, U.S. Navy, 1840-1866. The latter has much on naval matters. The letters, 1817-1846, received by Colonel William Drayton illustrate the feeling of the times. The collection contains considerable printed material on nullification, states rights, slavery, and the tariff, 1796-1840.

Brown served as Director of Girard Bank, 1840-1843. In 1844 he built and was president and manager of the Washington Manufacturing Company in Gloucester, N.J., which manufactured cotton. Washington Mills, owned by the Washington Manufacturing Company, contained both mills and boarding houses for single workers. Following this he established the Gloucester Manufacturing Company for the production of printed calicoes. In 1859 Brown built the Gloucester Gingham Mills, incorporated in 1872. In 1864 he established and was president of the Gloucester Iron Works, which was incorporated in 1871.

Other companies David S. Brown established include the Gloucester Print Works and the Gloucester Land Company. He founded the Ancona Printing Company in 1871, which introduced new methods of applying colors which had been successful in Europe but previously untried in the United States.

The collection includes records of David S. Brown & Co.: correspondence, letter books, cashbooks, ledgers, receipt books, sales books, invoice books, sample books, stock books, purchase books, daybooks, sketch books, account sale books, journals, merchandise blotters, cash blotters, order books, checks, miscellaneous books, and other titles.

Other Brown companies are represented by assorted records: Washington Manufacturing Company, 1844-1895, minutes of the stockholders, ledgers, payroll books, superintendent's cashbook, and rent roll; Gloucester Manufacturing Company, 1868-1879, ledgers and stock book of prints; Gloucester Gingham Mills, 1871-1908, correspondence, ledgers, supply book, legal papers relating to a suit between Gloucester Gingham Mills and Gloucester Cotton Mill Company, office letter book, letter books, cashbooks, daybook, receipt book, purchase books, stock book, sales books, monthly reports, and invoice books; Gloucester Iron Works, 1873-1910, correspondence, letter books, cashbooks, sales books, time book, ledger, and check stubs; and the Ancona Printing Company, 1877-1880, letter books, account sales books, cashbooks, stock book, stock print books, receipt book, and invoice book containing fabric samples.

Other records include Gloucester Library and Library Company minutes, 1850, and accounts, 1851-1854.

For Stephen Collins, father of Zaccheus, the collection contains old bonds and deeds, 1761-1795; bankbook, 1791; letter book, 1783-1792; and letters from Colonel Robert Hampden Pye, 1778-1779.

Christopher Marshall, Jr., the father-in-law of Zaccheus Collins, is represented by a diary, 1806, and a waste book, 1797-1798. In addition there is a ledger, 1775-1797, of the firm of Christopher and Charles Marshall, Philadelphia drug and paint manufacturers, and an account book, 1811, of Christopher's estate.

The collection also contains Elizabeth Marshall's ciphering book, 1782; inventory of the estate of Thomas Paschall, 1796, Christopher Marshall executor; an account of the estate of Anne Collins, 1807-1815; and General Parker's letters relating to his venture in the horse-breeding business with General Irvine, 1818-1838, and book entitled War and Peace Register and Regulations, 1814-1838, which contains copies of orders and regulations issued by the War Department.